Hi,

Someone posted a message claiming that the Titan was the best ship. I would like a modder to think about developing the following: A scoring dogfight mod.

In this server mod, a player chooses a dofight time limit and equips two ships, and awaits another player to select one of the two ships. This will incentivise the first player to balance the two ships as closely as possible, and yet allows them to offer a handicap.

The server would keep track of total damage, max unreplied damage, and time to "kills" against lessor shields. The dogfight ends at kill or at the time limit. If noone gets killed by the time limit, who ever has the "kill" against the highest shield class in the least time may consider themselves the victor if they want. Hopefully, both parties emerge as better pilots.

I would put up an Eagle against a comparably equiped Titan or Sabre any day against any pilot. There is a historical analogy: Japanese Zero vs. American Corsair. The only way a Corsair could beat a Zero was by using it's superior speed to make lethal flybys before the zeros could engage it in dogfights with it's superior manuverability. If a Titan and an Eagle were equipped with their maximum number of max class weapons, the Titan pilot would need to make the kill on the first pass, as it is no faster than an Eagle to get away for a second or subsequent pass. I doubt this could be done against even level 9 shields.

Anyway, create the mod and let's find out!

-Tom Schaefer